I'm sure that the vast majority of us are computer nerds and, as such, have read the book "Criptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson.
I have very little idea how to implement this, but Freenet might make a viable platform for anonymous online micropayments. It seems to me that to do that, we would need another model for currency. The only reason that the USD has value is that people agree that it has value. It doesn't even have a gold backing anymore. It would be difficult for any mostly-distributed community such as this to create a gold-backed currency, so it would make sense that we should use something that already has a value as a currency. Could we use bandwidth as a currency? Though I haven't check the archives, I'm assuming that this has been proposed at some point. (I'll check them out now -- just thought that I'd bring the issue up) Appended are the [partial] lyrics to the song "Money" by Pink Floyd -- just for good measure. Best Regards, Drew Bradford http://www.drewbradford.com/ ================= Money - by Pink Floyd Money, get away Get a good job with more pay and your O.K. Money it's a gas Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash New car, caviar, four star daydream, Think I'll buy me a football team Money get back I'm all right Jack keep your hands off my stack. Money it's a hit Don't give me that do goody good bullshit I'm in the hi-fidelity first class traveling set And I think I need a Lear jet Money it's a crime Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie Money so they say Is the root of all evil today But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
